Comments on: Apple iPhone Teaches Microsoft Meaning of Irony http://www.theminorityreport.org/2009/apple-iphone-teaches-microsoft-meaning-of-irony/ Ramblings of an Amateur Futurist Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:46:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ellie http://www.theminorityreport.org/2009/apple-iphone-teaches-microsoft-meaning-of-irony/comment-page-1/#comment-837 Ellie Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:54:25 +0000 http://www.theminorityreport.org/2009/apple-iphone-teaches-microsoft-meaning-of-irony/#comment-837 Umm... i don't think we can call Google a grassroots movement. They are there to make money.... They are a publicly traded company, with shareholders and a board of directors. AND, they are just as secretive about their search technology as say M$ or Yahoo...i mean if they were just a bunch of guys, hacking in their spare time, they'd just GPL their search engine source code, and forget about it. So, please don't be delusional. Google is worth billions, and they are not about to let go of their golden goose! And then, what about the EULA that you have to agree to, to sign up on Gmail? It specifically states that you are NOT to reverse engineer the mail client. What's up with that? ...But i suppose no one reads those anyway... Umm… i don’t think we can call Google a grassroots movement. They are there to make money….

They are a publicly traded company, with shareholders and a board of directors. AND, they are just as secretive about their search technology as say M$ or Yahoo…i mean if they were just a bunch of guys, hacking in their spare time, they’d just GPL their search engine source code, and forget about it. So, please don’t be delusional. Google is worth billions, and they are not about to let go of their golden goose!

And then, what about the EULA that you have to agree to, to sign up on Gmail? It specifically states that you are NOT to reverse engineer the mail client. What’s up with that? …But i suppose no one reads those anyway…

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